A nonoscillatory discontinuous Galerkin transport scheme on the cubed sphere

However, when there are discontinuities in the solution, the DG transport scheme generates spurious oscillations that reduce the quality of the numerical solution. For applications such as the atmospheric tracer transport modeling, a nonoscillatory, positivity-preserving solution is a basic requirement.

To suppress the oscillations in the DG solution, a limiter based on the Hermite-Weighted Essentially Nonoscillatory (H-WENO) method has been implemented for a third-order DG transport scheme. However, the H-WENO limiter can still produce wiggles with small amplitudes in the solutions, but this issue has been addressed by combining the limiter with a bound-preserving (BP) filter. The BP filter is local and easy to implement and can be used for making the solution strictly positivity preserving.